Jones, Catesby Ap Roger

Life Span
to
Full name
Catesby Ap Roger Jones
Place of Birth
Fairfield, VA
Burial Place
Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, AL
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
6
Family
Roger Jones (father), Mary Anne Mason Page (mother), Gertrude T. Tartt (wife)
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Confederate Navy

Catesby Ap Roger Jones (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Jones was an experienced officer and an expert on ordnance, whose resignation from the U.S. Navy in 1861 was a serious loss to the North. His work, together with that of his colleague [John M.] Brooke, made it possible for the South to manufacture its own heavy cannon even late in the war. Ironically, it was Jones's expertise in ordnance that prevented him from obtaining what he desired most--command of a warship.
Norman C. Delaney, "Jones, Catesby ap Roger," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00576.html.
Date Event
In Hampton Roads, the Virginia and the Monitor pound each other in the first ever battle between ironclads
In Virginia, the famous and feared Confederate ironclad "Merrimac" is burned to avoid its capture
In Richmond, the Confederate Navy convenes a court of inquiry over the destruction of the Merrimac
In Richmond, the Confederate Navy court of inquiry into the scuttling of the Merrimac makes its report
Civil War at Sea
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